Sharepoint Online

Secure, central location providing collaboration, resource organisation, content management and workflow facilties. Create and manage custom team and project focused intranet sites for collaboration and document sharing.

SharePoint Online delivers the powerful features of SharePoint without the associated overhead of managing the infrastructure on your own. Flexible management options ensure that you still retain the control you need to meet the compliance requirements of your organisation. You can purchase SharePoint in the cloud as a standalone offering or as part of an Office 365 suite where you could also get access to Exchange, Lync, the Office clients and web apps.

Key Features:

• Cross Device Availability: Easily access and interact with your SharePoint newsfeed, wherever you go using the SharePoint mobile apps available across various devices.
  
• Easy to Manage: You can get setup in virtually no time! The powerful admin console allows your organisation to easily manage capabilities, policies and security for all the content and features within SharePoint. Automated maintenance of the servers ensure that you are always up to date with the latest features with minimal downtime.
  
• Enterprise Grade Reliability and Standards: Safeguard your data by hosting it in geographically distributed datacenters with continuous data backup, premier disaster recovery capabilities and a team of experts monitoring the servers around the clock.

Sharepoint Online - Features

Standard Edition Features include:
Dedicated Edition Features include:
Optional Services

Standard Edition Features include:

• Portal:
  • Audience targeting for deciding how SharePoint groups obtain information
  • Site Manager feature for changing SharePoint site navigation, security access and general look and feel using a drag-and-drop tool
  • Interact with SharePoint sites using Microsoft 2007 Office programs and Office SharePoint Designer.
• Collaboration and Social Computing:
• Create and control collaborative workspaces using meeting and team site templates
• Shared calendars, e-mail alerts and notifications
• Blogs, wikis, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and surveys.
• Content Management:
• Document review workflow for collaborating on documents and managing project tasks by applying specific business processes to SharePoint site documents and items
• WYSIWYG editor and Office Information Panel and Action Bar
Pre-built page layouts
• Retention and auditing policies for defining document retention and expiry periods, providing access control and security and enabling tracking.
• Search:
• Locate content that is stored in lists, document libraries and other locations in a SharePoint collection with security-trimmed search results displayed.
• Standard Parameters:
• 100 site collections
• 250 MB per user, aggregated across the organisation
• HTTPS secure internet connections
• Virus filtering via Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint
• Single sign-on capability via Sign In application
• Web form and 24/7 telephone-based Tier 2 support for administrators
• Deskless worker offer for users who do not currently have collaboration capabilities or use a PC on a limited basis.
• Client Support:
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, Firefox 3.0 or later, Safari 3.1.2.
• Retention and Auditing Policies:
• Logging of all actions on sites, content and workflows; audit log reporting.
• Data Protection Service:
• Self-service document restoration with a 30-day Recycle Bin recovery period
• Business continuity and disaster recovery provisions built into service delivery systems.
• Security:
• Regularly scheduled security assessments
• Continuous intrusion monitoring and detection.
• Service Level Agreements:
  • 99.9% scheduled uptime with financially backed service level agreement (SLA).
• Directory Synchronisation Tool:
  • Synchronise an on-premise Active Directory with the Microsoft Online Active Directory.
• Administration Centre:
  • Centralised, web-based access for configuration and administration of SharePoint Online
  • Centralised location for directory synchronisation, migration and sign-in tools.

Dedicated Edition Features include:

• Core Features:
• Share documents, contacts, calendars and tasks
• Brainstorm via Wiki sites
• Share ideas ?via blogs
• Create partner access sites for collaboration
• Use presence awareness with Microsoft Office Communications Server
• Manage security features at the item level, such as folder, document and list
• Obtain mobile access via a 128-bit SSL encryption session
• Enable pass-through authentication
• Anti-virus scanning with Microsoft Forefront client security
• Personal sites (My Sites) supported with up to 1 gigabyte of storage.
• Standard Parameters:
• Team sites have a default storage quota of 2 gigabytes per site that can be increased up to 10 gigbytes per site; 10 team site collections (including the portal) can have up to 100 gigbytes of storage
• 250 megabytes per user, aggregated across the organisation
• Additional storage available as an option.
• Client Support:
Best integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
• Limited feature support available with Windows 2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000.
• Data Protection Service:
  • Self-service document restoration with a 30-day Recycle Bin recovery period
  • Two-stage Recycle Bin provides two chances for customers to recover deleted items.
• Audits and Security:
• Alignment and certification based on industry standards
• SAS 70 Type II audited
• Intrusion monitoring and detection; nine-layer data security.
• Service Level Agreements:
• 99.9 percent availability of the service measured at the data centre
• Reported monthly, evaluated quarterly, backed financially.

Optional Services

• WAN Acceleration: analysis and consulting services regarding performance management and latency mitigation for SharePoint users with support for Certeon WAN acceleration devices
• Migration: develop a strategy for migration: outline the risks and facilitate migration activities
• Additional Storage: priced per each terabyte used
• Customisation and Applications: review, approve and operate customisations in-house or via a third party as a separate consulting project.

Sharepoint Online - System Requirements

System Requirements

Windows Vista: 1 gigahertz (GHz) Pentium processor or faster and 1 gigabyte (GB) or more of system RAM

Windows XP: 500 megahertz (MHz) Pentium processor or faster (recommended 1 GHz) and 256 megabytes (MB) or more of system RAM